Serious Discussion-Stress and Psych Disorders — Page 21

Just to add my whole "working mothers vs. stay at home moms" perspective from a High School student, both my parents worked. My mom owned a small business and was only home 3 days of the week, but switched around her hours so she's spend as much time as possible with my brother and me. Sometimes growing up, it sucked when my mom couldn't make it to a soccer game or the chorus concert I had a solo in or things like that, but you get over it. The thing that made up for it, however, was that my mother was a good mother and raised my brother and I well despite that fact she wasn't always home. Now unlike many kids at my school I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs and I'm an honors student. A lot of the kids who do do these things have stay at home moms. So my opinion is that it doesn't matter whether or not a mother decides to stay at home or work, it depends on what type of mother they are to begin with. Just because you spend most of your time with your children doesn't mean you will raise them well.


Ok sorry to add to the further threadjack on this point...

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That's the thing isn't it. I didn't think you felt that way, but somehow in the talk of what is "more" or "less" important to the society that is what results.

I agree with DramaDork in that it is not the quanity of parenting, it is the quality of parenting that really makes the difference.

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Oh, I disagree a little bit with the "quality over quantity" argument. In DramaDork's example, her mom still took time several times each week with her kids. But when parents who hire a nanny for the whole summer, not really seeing their kids until the mid-Auguest family excursion to Disney World and claim "quality over quantity" - sorry, not buying it.

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Are we staying on the parenting theme for today, as it didn't get enough discussion over the weekend?

SP, any topic on your mind you want to throw out?

Entertainment at it's most basic... Conveying a story, through lyrics and a melody. And someone skilled to carry both. Most certainly a means of conveying a message, particularly in the past, when literacy was MUCH lower.

Chants and evensong and hymns were pivotal to Church ceremony, as it's essentially the oral history of the Church set to harmony and words. Like stained glass windows in many cathedrals which provided the cvisual counterpoint to chants, hymns, passion plats, and prayer songs, it was the connection to an illiterate population.

There is an amazing Appalachia oral history/Blue Grass/Dulcimer museum at my alma mater, Appalachian State University

appalachian state

oh, somms, had i known those weren't your real teeth i might have reacted differently.

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I went to App State for a semester SOMMS.

The mountain storytellers are quite interesting. I met several in my days down there, and they were quite adept at the techniques.

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You were a Mountaineer Peng? Small little world.

Updated On: 1/30/06 at 01:46 PM

Let's not forget the amazing feats we're only just now discovering with music therapy.

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